Verse 20

My bones cling to my skin and my flesh, and I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 102:5 : 5 My heart is afflicted and withered like grass, for I forget to eat my food.
  • Lam 4:8 : 8 Now their appearance is darker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones; it has become as dry as wood.
  • Job 33:19-22 : 19 A person is also chastened with pain on their bed and continual aching in their bones. 20 Their life begins to loathe food, and their soul rejects even the most desirable meal. 21 Their flesh wastes away so that it can no longer be seen, and their bones, once hidden, now stick out. 22 Their soul draws near to the pit, and their life to the messengers of death.
  • Ps 22:14-17 : 14 They open their mouths against me, like a lion ripping and roaring. 15 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts within me. 16 My strength is dried up like a broken piece of pottery, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth; you lay me in the dust of death. 17 Dogs surround me; a band of evildoers encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet.
  • Ps 32:3-4 : 3 When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. 4 For day and night your hand was heavy on me; my strength was drained as in the heat of summer. Selah.
  • Ps 38:3 : 3 For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has come down upon me.
  • Ps 102:3 : 3 Do not hide your face from me in the day of my distress; incline your ear to me; on the day I call, answer me quickly.
  • Lam 3:4 : 4 He has worn away my flesh and my skin; He has broken my bones.
  • Job 2:4-6 : 4 Satan answered the LORD, 'Skin for skin! A man will give everything he has for his own life.' 5 But stretch out your hand and strike his bone and flesh, and he will surely curse you to your face! 6 The LORD said to Satan, 'Very well, he is in your hands; only spare his life.'
  • Job 7:5 : 5 My body is clothed with worms and scabs; my skin cracks and festers.
  • Job 30:30 : 30 My skin grows black and peels off, and my bones burn with fever.
  • Lam 5:10 : 10 Our skin is hot as an oven, burned from the raging heat of famine.